after watching first kiss and romantic princess alongside playing with my pet bianca in pet society, i was busy choosing which drama would be next in my marathon... though i still have a lot of dvds piling up in my dvd rack, i ended up buying a dvd of fated to love you... i have heard from last year this really had high ratings in taiwan, so i thought i really had to see it for myself... i even anticipated which station will be getting the rights for this BUT it ended up with gma7... there is a word BUT there because i was hoping this will be aired in abs-cbn because they dub better than gma7... well i guess there's nothing else we can do as this is now airing in gma7 during daily @ around 10pm. i actually still can't watch it because i work in the graveyard shift, so buying my own copy is the only other option.
Fated to Love You SYNOPSIS from dramawiki:A really unfashionable working class girl Chen Xin Yi has the desire to tie down her handsome boyfriend to be with her. Due to certain reasons, her boyfriend gets her to go on a love cruise and she started to ponder on how to lose her virginity and tie down her boyfriend. Xin Yi ended up taking cold medicine which made her drowsy and went into Ji Cun Xi's room. Cun Xi is the sole male heir to his family's company and has been in love with his girlfriend, Anna, for a long time. He planned to propose to Anna on the boat but she didn't turn up on the cruise. An island owner added drugs into Cun Xi's drink and Cun Xi became disorientated and returned to his own room. Xin Yi and Cun Xi end up having a one night stand. Xin Yi later finds out that she's pregnant and Cun Xi's grandmother forces them to get married. Will a couple forced to marry for the sake of their unborn child find love with each other?Fated to Love You a.k.a Sticky Note Girl, Ming Zhong Zhu Ding Wo Ai Ni , Destiny Love... stars Chen Qiao En (Joe Chen) as Chen Xin Yi and Ethan Ruan as Ji Cun Xi. The plot was good, consisted of 24 episodes in total, lasted for almost 30 hours.Here's my summary. At the cruise, where Cun Xi's girlfriend Anna did not show up for his marriage proposal and Xin Yi's boyfriend cheated on her, combined with the strange twist of fate, they shared a night together thinking they're with their own partners only to find out after doing IT that they were calling another person's name. After the cruise, Xin Yi is back to being the old sticky note girl and Cun Xi being the general manager of their soap corporation... they went on with their normal lives... until one day, Xin Yi found out that she's actually pregnant. Cun Xi being the only legitimate 9th generation heir who can produce the next heir for the family was pressured and forced to get married when his grandmom found out the thing about Xin Yi. Having such a situation, getting married just for the sake of the child, the couple agreed to get divorced after the child is born so Cun Xi can continue his life with Anna but will take full responsibility of the child's custody. But living together for 3 months under the same roof, of course, brought a change in both their hearts and lives. Cun Xi, though he has always been harsh and careless with Xin Yi who remained to be the quiet-and-not-complaining-whatever-happens despite everything he did to her, slowly developed feelings for her... not only because they will soon have a child, but because he really felt something for her. But confusion bugged him when his gf Anna went back to taiwan after being kicked out of the ballet troupe. Anna, feeling her bf is slowly taken away from her, created a fake agreement saying that Cun Xi wants XinYi to abort their child. Xin Yi was hurt and ran away and met an accident that made her lose the child.
Thinking still that Cun Xi didn't want their child, Xin Yi hated him the most, she went to Shanghai China with high hopes of starting a new life. Cun Xi never got a clue of what happened, he continued searching for Xin Yi, he went to Jiang Mu Island (Xin Yi's home) everyday to look for her but found nothing. She became a clay artist after 2 years and became a deciple of the infamous artist Zhong Shan Long. She created a replica of the horse (the toy that CunXi built for their child) and exhibited it in their art gallery one day. Just so happened, Cun Xi had to go to China to meet with company executives for the export of their soap INHERITANCE. He visited an art gallery and bought a figurine made by the artist named Elaine. On his way to the airport for a flight back to taiwan, when he checked the card given by the art gallery, he found out that Elaine was actually Xin Yi so he went back and postponed his flight. He spent more days in China to look for Xin Yi and do business at the same time. "Z" is a codename Cun Xi used when he bought the firgurine.. to represent his undying and silent support for "Elaine", Xin Yi's new name as an artist. Cun Xi decided to get help for the packaging design of the soap, so he coordinated with the famous artist Zhong Shan Long who turned out out to be so busy and ended up sending his favorite deciple, Xin Yi, instead for the project. So Xin Yi who was escaping from her past and was trying to build a new person for almost two years seemed to be back to scratch... no matter how she denied, the fact still remains.. she still hasn't gotten over Cun Xi.
Until they both returned to taiwan.. a vacation and soul searching time for Xin Yi and business as usual for Cun Xi. It was only this time that Cun Xi found out what Anna did 2 years ago (the abortion agreement). He was so angry that he canceled their wedding and decided to pursue Xin Yi again, now without anymore thinking or feeling guilty about Anna. It was also only this time that Xin Yi was able to listen to the iPod that Cun Xi gave her sisters 2 years ago. Inside it was a recorded confession of Cun Xi's true feelings for Xin Yi. Just when everything seemed to be okay and Xin Yi has decided to be with Cun Xi again, before engagement dinner, Xin Yi went to a medial clinic for a pre-marital medical check up. Unfortunately, results were unbearable.. Xin Yi was diagnosed to be infertile which made her give up the proposal because she didn't want to marry Cun Xi without the capability of giving him a child.. coz this would also mean the end of the Ji clan. But this of course did not hinder Cun Xi, he knew about the medical result when Xin Yi's mom personally came to talk to him after his rejected proposal. He then arranged a meeting with Xin Yi to talk about their divorce agreement that they have long been discussing. But he did not show up... the meeting turned out to be just between his attorney and Xin Yi.. and the conditions stated in the new divorce agreement didn't sound like divorce terms at all.. in the end, she found herself at the church where Cun Xi was waiting for her... and they were finally married instead of getting divorced.. but this did not end here. it turned out that health clinic where Xin Yi had her medical examination was all scam (they target engaged couples who are about to get married, diagnosing infertility so they can sell them drugs/medicine for fertility). She actually wasn't infertile. The ending scene was Cun Xi and Xin Yi with her 2 sisters and their husbands, all 3 of them pregnant and about to give birth while having a picnic.So what can I say? The story was nice.. not like the usual cinderella story.. and not the usual drama plot where the lead meets an accident and incurs amnesia.. so this is a little refreshing. it's quite lengthy though, they could have ended it with the scene/episode in shanghai but they extended some more.. so it was a little dragging.. but they were able to pull thru till the end. they included some more twists and turns in the story so it turned out fine and I really had fun watching it. Yes, it was so funny I couldn't help myself from laughing in the middle of the night! :) I also liked the soundtrack, especially the song 99 Ci Wo Ai Ta by Shorty Yuen. And infairness, Joe Chen and Ethan Ruan's collaboration was not bad at all. In fact, I saw some sparks.. hehe :D and since this is their first team up, it really feels so fresh to the viewers' eyes.. (well at least to those who're not so familiar with asian dramas.. :p)Overall, I liked it! Now, I have a new entry to my Top 10 Korean/Taiwanese dramas! :)~grazhishu~*a wu chun addict*
*forever loyal joe cheng gal*
"i don't have a sleeping problem... i have no worries, no fears, no nothing, just myself... but when i met a couple this morning, laughing together, holding hands tightly and looking through each others eyes... it's harder for me to sleep now. maybe they're right. I THOUGHT I'M BETTER OFF ALONE. maybe it would be nicer to spend your time with someone that you love. someone who means something or maybe even everything to you. maybe i'll try it... not for now, BUT SOON... soon enough when i find someone to share my life with..."
